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Monday, April 30, 2012

Layering is a great technique to use on your scrapbook
layouts, cards or special projects. Layering can be done in a variety of ways
and can be used to add dimension to your pages.

Layer patterned paper over cardstock to
make a visual “frame” around the edge of your layout

Layer graduated sizes of cardstock as a mat to call
attention to an important photo

Layer letter stickers over parts of your photo or other
elements of your page

Layer embellishments such as stickers, buttons or ribbon over
tags or chipboard shapes

In the "My Polynesian Paradise" layout above, I've used all of these techniques and while it's hard to tell from a photo, the layout has added visual interest because of these various layering techniques.

Plumeria is a gorgeous mix of delicate floral patterns, eye-catching geometrics and coordinating solids. The patterns have a vintage feel using lavender, gold, purple and green with bursts of blue and orange throughout.

Nina has provided us with a great step-by-step outline to recreate her adorable Field of Flowers layout!

Using a Die Cut Machine (Steph used the Cricut Expression) die cut the title from Bazzill Pink cardstock and Bazzill Floral pattern.

Adhere title across top of the layout, adding foam adhesives to the "B" for a little dimension.

Steph Akerman

I love to create!. I teach in my home studio as well as at my local
Michaels and scrapbook store, teaching a variety of layout and card
classes incorporating die cutting, stamping, embossing, etc. My day is
just not complete if I haven't spent some time creating. I often don't
start with a plan of what I'm going to create. I let the products I
want to use "tell" me what they want to do. I love to "play" with my
supplies and I try to teach that to everyone. If you don't spend time
playing, then you have no idea of the full capabilities of your products
and the fun stuff you'll be able to create.

Monday, April 2, 2012

Every month FotoBella selects a new product line from Bo Bunny and shares fantastic bundles with our members.This month's Bo Bunny I Want It All membership bundle is Ambrosia.

This month Kristie from the FotoBella design team used this bundle to create all of these these beautiful designs. She has shared instructions for one of these layouts below.

Instructions for “Friends make the world a happy place” layout

Steps:

1. Cut a hand drawn bracket frame measuring 9”x11” from the green Bobunny paper. Place this to left side of page at an angle, leaving part hanging off the side of the page.

2. Cut another bracket frame at 6”x6” out of the rouge paper. Place this over the first raising slightly with some foam tape.

3. Cut a 2 ¼”x8” rectangle from the flower paper

4. Cut a 9 ½”x1 ½” strip from the circle paper, place these both to left side, keeping with the same angle as the bracket frames. Raise the flower one with foam tape.

5. Use a piece of purple cardstock (from my stash) to matte the photo. My photo is 4x6”, so my matte is 4 ¼”x6 ¼”.

6. Cut a 3”x4” piece of purple cardstock this goes to the right lower side of the photo

7. Cut a 3”x3”square from the flower paper this will go to the right lower of the photo, over the 3x3 piece

8. Using a border strip from the stickers, accordion fold it, then pull the fold out straight, when you stick it down try to keep some of the folds, this will give more dimension to you page.

9. Next make the flowers by using the “spiral circle” technique I found a link here: http://www.somewhatsimple.com/paper-flower-topiary-from-bits-of-me/ the only thing that I did different was I used a decorative edge scissors to cut mine.

10. Add all embellish from kit as shown, and sticker letters for title

Extras:

I used the side of my scissors to distress the edges of all of the papers, I added some doodling, and a scalloped circle punch for some pieces

Kristie Taylor

Hi my name is Kristie and I am so excited to be invited to design for FotoBella!

I am Married to a David,(the love of my life) and we have four awesome
kidlets, and a furbaby named Lilly. My wonderful family is usually the
subject of my scrappy projects, I have even been known to make them
dress to match a page I want to do - lol! I have been scrapbooking and
playing with paper for about twelve years, and I just love it! I don't
think my style fits into any certain description, but I think I would
call it "shabbydistressed bling"

I love to get my hands dirty and often use inks, and paints on my
scrapbook pages. I love to distress my paper to add more dimension, and
of course you always need a little bling! While scrapbooking is my
favorite artistic hobby, I also dabble in photography, art journaling
and mixed media. If you would like to see more of my crafty life, feel
free to visit my blog http://kristietaylor.blogspot.com/.